FYI: Control Data + Per-Device Metadata

sync/internal_api/public/engine/model_safe_worker.h

 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #ifndef SYNC_INTERNAL_API_PUBLIC_ENGINE_MODEL_SAFE_WORKER_H_
 #define SYNC_INTERNAL_API_PUBLIC_ENGINE_MODEL_SAFE_WORKER_H_
 
 #include <map>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
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                        // changes to these models don't need to be pushed to a
                        // native model.
   GROUP_UI,            // Models that live on UI thread and are being synced.
   GROUP_DB,            // Models that live on DB thread and are being synced.
   GROUP_FILE,          // Models that live on FILE thread and are being synced.
   GROUP_HISTORY,       // Models that live on history thread and are being
                        // synced.
   GROUP_PASSWORD,      // Models that live on the password thread and are
                        // being synced.  On windows and linux, this runs on the
                        // DB thread.
+  GROUP_CONTROL,       // Models that require special handling on the sync

[rlarocque, 2012/08/11 01:31:52]

Are we still OK with this name?  Does anyone have a better idea?

+                       // thread.  These types have no associated model.
   MODEL_SAFE_GROUP_COUNT,
 };
 
 SYNC_EXPORT std::string ModelSafeGroupToString(ModelSafeGroup group);
 
 // The Syncer uses a ModelSafeWorker for all tasks that could potentially
 // modify syncable entries (e.g under a WriteTransaction). The ModelSafeWorker
 // only knows how to do one thing, and that is take some work (in a fully
 // pre-bound callback) and have it performed (as in Run()) from a thread which
 // is guaranteed to be "model-safe", where "safe" refers to not allowing us to
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 SYNC_EXPORT ModelTypeSet GetRoutingInfoTypes(
     const ModelSafeRoutingInfo& routing_info);
 
 SYNC_EXPORT ModelSafeGroup GetGroupForModelType(
     const ModelType type,
     const ModelSafeRoutingInfo& routes);
 
 }  // namespace syncer
 
 #endif  // SYNC_INTERNAL_API_PUBLIC_ENGINE_MODEL_SAFE_WORKER_H_